The monstrous characters in her artwork are physical representations of her own strife, but instead of enemies, she imagines her personal demons as allies.
Her film "Phyllis and Harold," released in 2010, tells the story of her parents' strife-torn 59-year marriage.
She says this and her face contorts in pain -- because she cannot imagine a tenable life with Kamiya, and yet cannot imagine any life without her; because she wonders how her daughter is being shaped by her proximity to strife.
He said he felt good about his job until one negotiating session with a gray-haired woman who said, through tears, that the molesting she suffered long ago was still causing her depression, marital strife and sexual problems.
I vowed that I was never going to do anything that would cause her that much strife again.
Despite the marital strife her Christian fashion choices sometimes cause, she knows that if she just prays hard enough, God will give her the power to make her husband crazy about her skirt-over-dress combos.
But, despite her anonymity, Myerson left out much of what was really going on in her family, above all the strife linked to her eldest son's use of skunk cannabis.
Two years ago, in an interview with the Guardian, Blige hissed that her family - long a source of strife in her life - were "angry, hateful, jealous, ignorant, prideful people".
And her presence at the end, as a statue of Anthony, was warm, embracing and inspiriting, as her character reflected on the strife that was her life.
